JL Weil writes an interesting piece for The Awl partly about the South’s recent dominance of college basketball and partly an autobiographical story about a Southerner who thinks he’s leaving his home and Southern identity behind, only to come full circle sometime later: I spent the spring before I moved to Brooklyn diligently flattening out what was...
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A coalition of progressive Christian leaders has taken out a full-page ad that asks “What would Jesus cut?” in Monday’s edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington. “They’re...
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Apparently, sometimes it take a crook to tell it like it is: Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interviewpublished Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme.   “The whole new regulatory reform is a joke,”...
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Martin Kettle writes in an interesting article for the Guardian (UK) about the stance that liberty advocates in Britain took during Abraham Lincoln’s war to prevent Southern independence. What is interesting, is that Mr. Kettle looks deeper than the obvious issue of slavery and examines the liberals’ opposition to slavery and support for self-determination, a...
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It seems that some people have no wish to get along with their neighbours – if their neighbours are proud of their Southern heritage, that is: The Summerville woman who refused to take down her confederate flag is now dealing with 8-foot fences around her home. Property owners built wooden fences on both sides...
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Loss of privacy and liberty in the US Empire is set to escalate as the Feds, never content with whatever level of intrusiveness they have achieved, continue to push their hand: A new level of invasive screening is scheduled for airports this summer:  a portable DNA scanner to conduct on-site, real-time genetic testing. This technology...
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Peter Oborne, writing for the Telegraph (UK), in an excellent article that has generated thousands of comments and tons of debate, asks some of the most important questions of our time – questions that will not be discussed in the so-called mainstream US media: Empires can collapse in the course of a generation. At the end of...
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Today, I attended the Battle of Aiken Re-enactment. It was a lot of fun on the whole. It’s always nice to see our flags and reminders of our struggle for Southern independence. Children were running around playing Confederates and Yanks. Parents and grandparents strolled through the tent stores. Re-enactors in period clothing performed tasks common to...
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Washington, DC seems intent on undermining and turning public opinion against the only remaining widely-supported Federal institution. The dollar and the military are the twin pillars of the US Empire and with Bernanke and company doing their best to destroy the green-back, the Feds have now brilliantly embarked on a new policy which is...
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Dennis Mangan writes about how the US Federal Government’s policy of monetary inflation is ironically helping to bring about democracies in the countries which formerly had harsh, autocratic governments friendly to Feds. These democratic regimes will on the whole surely be far less likely to cow-tow before the US Empire: George W. Bush spent hundreds...
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This article shows that Appalachian culture has linked Southern Ohioans and Dixie together, and that only a river and a government stand between the two's cultural bond.
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Since 2008, Boeing has spent $52 million lobbying the Feds to get the contract to built a new generation of tankers. That’ $52 million investment has paid off handsomely for the corporation – in our tax money: The Air Force awarded a $35 billion contract to build the next generation of air refueling planes...
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